{"id":26339,"date":"2009-04-15T12:21:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T12:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/04\/15\/mandy-the-polar-bear-lady-suic\/"},"modified":"2009-04-15T12:21:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T12:21:43","slug":"mandy-the-polar-bear-lady-suic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/15\/mandy-the-polar-bear-lady-suic\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandy the Polar Bear Lady:  Suicide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is being suggested, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/germany\/5148900\/Teacher-who-survived-polar-bear-mauling-at-zoo-was-depressed-over-job.html\">this article<\/a> (which was pointed to by <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gnxp\/2009\/04\/polar_bear_woman_was_suicidal.php\">this blogger<\/a>), that the woman who leaped into the Berlin Zoo polar bear enclosure a couple of days ago was seeking her own death, having become depressed over  her job situation.  She was an out of work teacher.<\/p>\n<p>It has also been revealed that during the incident, the Zoo staff had already broken out rifles and issued them to staff snipers, who were prepared to kill one or more polar bears.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t think they had out of work teachers in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Mandy remains in critical condition in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Flashback to an earlier Zoo Animal Eats Person story: <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/tatiana_is_telling_us_somethin.php\">Tatiana Is Telling us Something<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/the_physics_of_tatiana.php\">The Physics of Tatiana<\/a>.  And, while we are on the topic of bears: <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/cave_bears_more_carnivorous_th.php\">Cave Bears More Carnivorous Than Previously Thought<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is being suggested, according to this article (which was pointed to by this blogger), that the woman who leaped into the Berlin Zoo polar bear enclosure a couple of days ago was seeking her own death, having become depressed over her job situation. She was an out of work teacher. It has also been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/15\/mandy-the-polar-bear-lady-suic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mandy the Polar Bear Lady:  Suicide?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6QP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}